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w. you know who you are. >> greg: does it rhyme with brian williams? >> dana: no. >> greg: does it rhyme -- >> dana: no. president bush did like them. he had respect for them. what happened to the reporters in the presence of president obama happened to me once as well. in 2006, i sat across the table from him. we had fun and laughed for hours. then they came to the cabinet room to meet with president bush. i was the last one in the room and i went to stick out my hand and introduce myself. he said oh, no, i remember you, dana perino. that was my favorite night in all of washington. the ice would is i might vote for him, too. >> greg: you are a hypocrite. >> dana: it happens. charisma. >> greg: i had a similar experience with the obama impersonator. the impersonator was impressive. we had lunch. what am i talking about? new gallup poll, obama turns out is more polarizing than bush. >> eric: get out! >> greg: hard to believe. average of 86% of democrats and 10% of republicans approve of t
w. you know who you are. >> greg: does it rhyme with brian williams? >> dana: no. >> greg: does it rhyme -- >> dana: no. president bush did like them. he had respect for them. what happened to the reporters in the presence of president obama happened to me once as well. in 2006, i sat across the table from him. we had fun and laughed for hours. then they came to the cabinet room to meet with president bush. i was the last one in the room and i went to stick out my hand...
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it ties another recent president, george w. bush, for the most polarizing presidents the way they put it of all time. chris wallace joins me now, the anchor of "fox news sunday." good morning, chris. >> food morning, martha. martha: what is the meaning of that number do you think? >> well it shows there is not a lot of common ground for the president. this was his polling number last year for the campaign year. i don't think given his inaugural address which pushed a very assertive liberal agenda that it will be much different this year, perhaps even the next four years. there is not a lot of common ground with this president. either you like him or really don't like him. he is perceived as a liberal, and somebody who will push a liberal agenda. martha: yeah. i have the same thought in terms of bringing things together. we did hear a lot about hope and change. when president obama then senator, ran against george bush he talked so much about the divisiveness in washington and how things were going to change. you wonder, sort of
it ties another recent president, george w. bush, for the most polarizing presidents the way they put it of all time. chris wallace joins me now, the anchor of "fox news sunday." good morning, chris. >> food morning, martha. martha: what is the meaning of that number do you think? >> well it shows there is not a lot of common ground for the president. this was his polling number last year for the campaign year. i don't think given his inaugural address which pushed a very...
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bush and george w. bush and i can tell you firsthand that there were several boos in the audience not just for george w. bh,
bush and george w. bush and i can tell you firsthand that there were several boos in the audience not just for george w. bh,
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and his predecessor george w. bush had a 61% polarization rate and the fox news poll shows him polarizing into the second term. >> well, you know what, kelly, it's not all his fault. >> kelly: good points. >> we've had more politicians in washington put politics before policy. having said that, reagan was a great leader, bill clinton was a great leader. reagan cut deals with tip o'neill. bill clinton cut deals with newt gingrich. you have to compromise. obama is a great or atore and motivational speakers and he's he not been a great leader, but takes republicans coming to the table as well. >> kelly: well, why is it, why does this kind of problem exist for the president who wanted to become the unifier in chief and yet, in many ways he's perceived as the divider in chief. well, i think, you have to look at how republicans have treated the president since he's been elected into office and now reelected. now, half of the republican party doesn't believe the president is the citizen of the country-- >> that's not tru
and his predecessor george w. bush had a 61% polarization rate and the fox news poll shows him polarizing into the second term. >> well, you know what, kelly, it's not all his fault. >> kelly: good points. >> we've had more politicians in washington put politics before policy. having said that, reagan was a great leader, bill clinton was a great leader. reagan cut deals with tip o'neill. bill clinton cut deals with newt gingrich. you have to compromise. obama is a great or...
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george w. bush did it 171 times. clinton, 139. reagan 243 times. this a practice that they use. they figured out how to make fake sessions to seem like the chamber is not in recession. they gavel in for 30 seconds, three hours or gavel out to make it technically not in recess and technically in session. >> bret: president bush didn't move appointments during those times. >> right. >> but president obama did. >> president obama never even nominated the three nlrb appointees. richard cordray had been nominated to the consumer and financial protection bureau before he was a recess appointee. the three board members are not nominated. the white house is aghast and shocked and saying this is executive authority always exercised. it will be again. this is procedural semantics basically. >> bret: sure. but my point is it hasn't been done like this. it hasn't been done like this. >> no. i'm not saying that they are not going to have all the decisions of the board undone. and everything -- >> bret: on the senate side, this hasn't been done like this, been pro forma session. you ticked of
george w. bush did it 171 times. clinton, 139. reagan 243 times. this a practice that they use. they figured out how to make fake sessions to seem like the chamber is not in recession. they gavel in for 30 seconds, three hours or gavel out to make it technically not in recess and technically in session. >> bret: president bush didn't move appointments during those times. >> right. >> but president obama did. >> president obama never even nominated the three nlrb...
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george w. bush was very involved in this. jeb bush is speaking very strongly in favor of this type of citizenship. the trouble they are likely to run into is in the house of representatives, right. >> reporter: one would think so. the problem with this bill for the critics in the house is that it is, call it what you will, whatever name you use it's an amnesty bill in the sense that people who came here illegally and who are here now will be able to attain a provisional legal status. that won't make them citizens, that will be a much more come ph*ebg complex, they get to come out of the shadows and be here legally and work here legal leave. a lot of people will say that is amnesty. amnesty is a word that fires up people who were really reoccupied and concerned about this issue. this is one of these issues where intensity matters. you look at that big number, 66% in favor of a path for citizenship for these people. how many people are really passionate about it? it's hard to know. a great many of those who will oppose it are p
george w. bush was very involved in this. jeb bush is speaking very strongly in favor of this type of citizenship. the trouble they are likely to run into is in the house of representatives, right. >> reporter: one would think so. the problem with this bill for the critics in the house is that it is, call it what you will, whatever name you use it's an amnesty bill in the sense that people who came here illegally and who are here now will be able to attain a provisional legal status. that...
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here now to join us, former george w. bush chief of staff, andy card. andy, thanks for being here. this is always an interesting day to watch, with the pomp and circumstance. all of the things that focus the country's attention on the transfer of power. your thoughts on this day, and looking back into two times that you were a part of this. >> oh, it's a great -- it's a great day to celebrate america and i love this constitution and the fact that you have article one hosting the brand new article two swearing in and the article three doing the swearing in, so you've got congress, the president, and the supreme court all there on the same stage and now they're enjoying a wonderful lunch where they're going to have very brief speeches, but say they're going to get along and work together and then they'll pile into limousines and the parades will start and just tremendously exciting. i love watching the inauguration. i love the state of the union, or the inaugural address that the president gave. i didn't agree with everything he said. i thought it was kind of a parallel universe spee
here now to join us, former george w. bush chief of staff, andy card. andy, thanks for being here. this is always an interesting day to watch, with the pomp and circumstance. all of the things that focus the country's attention on the transfer of power. your thoughts on this day, and looking back into two times that you were a part of this. >> oh, it's a great -- it's a great day to celebrate america and i love this constitution and the fact that you have article one hosting the brand new...
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brad blakeman is a former deputy assistant to president george w. bush and martin frost is a former texas congressman. thank you both for joining us. >> thank you, thank you. good to be here. >> the current senate makeup. let's take a look at the numbers. 55 democrats, 45 republicans currently. in 2014, 33 seats will be up for re-election. don't go the way of general elections. congressman frost what do you think is going to happen? >> well, first of all, this is a subject i know a fair amount about. i was chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee in 1998, the last time you had the so-called six year itch when the president's party is supposed to lose seats in the sixth year of the president's term. we actually picked up five seats in the house and we broke even in the senate. but what is happening here is that the republican party actually had this same opportunity in 2010 and 2012 and they nominated candidates that were too far to the right and lost some races they shouldn't have lost that happened in missouri and in indiana and
brad blakeman is a former deputy assistant to president george w. bush and martin frost is a former texas congressman. thank you both for joining us. >> thank you, thank you. good to be here. >> the current senate makeup. let's take a look at the numbers. 55 democrats, 45 republicans currently. in 2014, 33 seats will be up for re-election. don't go the way of general elections. congressman frost what do you think is going to happen? >> well, first of all, this is a subject i...
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and remember, in 2007 president george w. bush said i'll see you at the bill signing, and that bill signing on immigration never happened. so the chances of this, i think, are pretty good, but there's a long way to go. but there could be legislation signed into law, i think, by the august recess. jon: well, the president, is the president trying to steal some of the senate's thunder? >> what the president has to be very careful, and that's what senate republican leader mitch mcconnell warned him of, of not having a partisan speech, and we saw a bit of that in the fiscal cliff negotiations right before the new year. and there was this fragile compromise that republicans worried was going to go through because of that presser. so obama, i'm sure, is going to be putting out his own proposal but praising the bipartisan effort here. but republicans are nervous that, you know, this is a fragile group in washington, anytime there's a bipartisan group, it's fragile, and you can't get too partisan with this issue because it's way too
and remember, in 2007 president george w. bush said i'll see you at the bill signing, and that bill signing on immigration never happened. so the chances of this, i think, are pretty good, but there's a long way to go. but there could be legislation signed into law, i think, by the august recess. jon: well, the president, is the president trying to steal some of the senate's thunder? >> what the president has to be very careful, and that's what senate republican leader mitch mcconnell...
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w. >> megyn: fox news alert. big drama on capitol hill over a plan that could dramatically change the rules in the senate and give even more power to the majority party, right now the democrats. welcome to "america live." i'm megyn kelly. yesterday we told you how majority leader harry reid has given republican minority leader mitch mcconnell a ult m may-- ultimatum, change the rules or the democrats will do it for you. the original deadline appears to have come and gone, but we're hearing reports that a deal could be in the works. now shall the filibuster is one of the few tools republicans have to make their voices heard in the senate. the minority party, i should say, some day the shoe could be on the other foot and some believe that giving it up would be dangerous for both sides. doug has more, doug? >> docks news confirmed that reid and mcconnell struck a proposed deal on filibuster reform and they're looking at the proposal and if there's widespread approval, we can see as early as
w. >> megyn: fox news alert. big drama on capitol hill over a plan that could dramatically change the rules in the senate and give even more power to the majority party, right now the democrats. welcome to "america live." i'm megyn kelly. yesterday we told you how majority leader harry reid has given republican minority leader mitch mcconnell a ult m may-- ultimatum, change the rules or the democrats will do it for you. the original deadline appears to have come and gone, but...
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you say that, you know, conspiracy theorists came up with this idea that george w. bush, bush 43 as he's known in this country, and tony blair knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq but invaded anyway. your book says that's bunk. >> yes. the book really says that the intelligence agency simply got it wrong. the politicians, talking particularly about here in london, thought the weapons were there, and they thought it because the intelligence agencies told them they were. so i really focus on trying to understand why mi6 got it wrong over those iraqi weapons of mass destruction. and incidentally, a lot of that british intelligence was vital in the american case for war. but they simply were being told things by their agents in iraq which were not true, and the quality control, the checking on that information simply failed. people were saying this is here, that's here, and they believed it. the checking simply didn't work. and that played a key role in the case for the war. and especially in britain. i think it has done a lot of harm to the reputation
you say that, you know, conspiracy theorists came up with this idea that george w. bush, bush 43 as he's known in this country, and tony blair knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq but invaded anyway. your book says that's bunk. >> yes. the book really says that the intelligence agency simply got it wrong. the politicians, talking particularly about here in london, thought the weapons were there, and they thought it because the intelligence agencies told them they were....
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back in 2007 when george w. bush had his proposal to reform immigration with the guest worker program, it was dick durbin and then-senator barack obama who gutted the guest worker provision out of that immigration reform and effectively killed it off. so it's great that now durbin is on board along with a number of republicans. the big question is, though, later today we're going to hear from the president. is the president really serious about immigration reform? after all, marco rubio has been out there, but has the white house reached out to him so far? absolutely not. >>gretchen: here's the plan they're talking about, this gang of eight. register and pass a background check. you would be required to do that if you're illegal. pay a fine and back taxes. earn probationary legal status. learn english. continue to pay taxes. show work history and then get a green card and then apply for citizenship. effectively you would go to the back of the line. so this is a bipartisan effort. remember, some of these commissi
back in 2007 when george w. bush had his proposal to reform immigration with the guest worker program, it was dick durbin and then-senator barack obama who gutted the guest worker provision out of that immigration reform and effectively killed it off. so it's great that now durbin is on board along with a number of republicans. the big question is, though, later today we're going to hear from the president. is the president really serious about immigration reform? after all, marco rubio has...
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let's ask form chief of staff for president george w. bush and the 41st president of the united states, texas a & m university, mr. andy card joins us. as chief of staff, you have to set an agenda for the president. what is the challenge with the second term as opposed to the first? >> first of all, today is a day of celebration. yesterday was as well. but today will be the real public day of celebration and i'll be celebrating it, too. president obama is my president, too. i look forward to him taking the oath of office. i want to hear that inaugural speech. but i can tell you, there is going to be a lot of heavy lifting that has to take place in order for the president to be success envelope a second term. that's when the blues start to set in, when you realize how tough the job is and it's not just about the issues that you can anticipate meeting. it's the ones that you don't anticipate that you have to meet. and so i hope he moves from being an i president. he was very much an i president during his first term. i, i, i, i, i. the sec
let's ask form chief of staff for president george w. bush and the 41st president of the united states, texas a & m university, mr. andy card joins us. as chief of staff, you have to set an agenda for the president. what is the challenge with the second term as opposed to the first? >> first of all, today is a day of celebration. yesterday was as well. but today will be the real public day of celebration and i'll be celebrating it, too. president obama is my president, too. i look...